Chapter 193: Being Deceived
Chapter 193: Being Deceived
The little girl's body was stiff, and Xu Mingyuan needed to hold her hand before she could sign her name.
Tao Shuxin's fingers were pressed with fingerprints by Xu Mingyuan without her control. She then watched him swipe the card and stuff a written contract into her arms. Tao Shuxin was still confused.
The sales lady next to her was still talking, but Tao Shuxin didn't quite understand what she was saying. She only knew that she still had to go to the Housing Authority to register.
In just a few hours, she was inexplicably tied to Xu Mingyuan.
She didn't seem reluctant, but she had an indescribable emotion.
This is a fair thing to do at the Housing Authority. If her parents find out, Tao Shuxin has already anticipated the consequences. Even if her parents still recognize them as their daughter, they will probably beat her half to death.
This is no different from a private marriage...
Although they were ambiguous for a year, it only took a short six months to confirm the relationship.
When the two of them were together, Tao Shuxin felt the sweetness and happiness of life, but she found that Xu Mingyuan didn't seem to be like that.
I didn’t see the excitement of first love in him, but more of calmness.
Sometimes Tao Shuxin would feel uneasy and would keep asking him whether he liked her or not. However, Xu Mingyuan would always answer that he liked her. When he got tired of being asked, he would hug her and kiss her to make her behave herself.
Everything the two of them experienced seemed natural and logical, making Tao Shuxin feel that it was as it should be and there was nothing surprising about it.
Seeing Xu Mingyuan negotiating with the staff calmly, Tao Shuxin, although a little girl, tried her best to appear calm, not wanting to be seen as uneasy.
Unfortunately, the blush on her face and the fluctuation in her eyes had already betrayed her.
For Xu Mingyuan, the money to buy her two more necklaces is actually equivalent to half a house.
But the small gift and the house have different meanings. To Tao Shuxin, this is equivalent to a small family formed privately.
Seeing that Tao Shuxin was pretending to be calm, Xu Mingyuan did not continue to disturb her.
The little girl is careless and doesn't remember things. She will calm down in a couple of days.
Tao Shuxin's imaginative design plan is definitely unreliable. If she is really asked to design it, she will regret it after living there for two days after the decoration is completed.
Xu Mingyuan asked the staff to call the designer who was working with the developer. Not long after, a designer in his thirties came to the sales office, opened his laptop and introduced the plan to the two.
Xu Mingyuan completely handed the matter over to Tao Shuxin, and just drank tea on the side without offering any opinions.
"What do you think of this decoration style? It's warm in color and looks quite comfortable." Tao Shuxin asked.
"Row."
"Oh, you are so perfunctory. Please take a good look."
Tao Shuxin pushed him gently, then quickly retracted her hand. She still felt a little shy talking about this kind of thing with Xu Mingyuan.
"I don't have much vision, so you pick a few first, and then we can discuss our opinions."
After Xu Mingyuan finished speaking, he continued to play games on his mobile phone.
Seeing that he was indifferent, Tao Shuxin slapped him angrily.
Tao Shuxin discussed with the designer for more than an hour, combined the recommended plans, and finally selected several decoration styles for each room and asked Xu Mingyuan to take a look.
Xu Mingyuan, who was lying on his side on the sofa, was almost falling asleep while playing with his mobile phone. Seeing that the little girl finally couldn't make up her mind, he went to help her with some advice.
Tao Shuxin chose simple modern furniture, unlike the redwood furniture in her home. Maybe the little girl had had enough of her parents' aesthetics from the last century and wanted to have her own little room.
Xu Mingyuan eliminated several impractical decoration plans and handed the rest to Tao Shuxin.
After thinking for more than half an hour, Tao Shuxin finally decided on the final plan and chose a warm style with an overall milk coffee color.
Xu Mingyuan took a quick look and felt that the style was a bit too fresh and simple, and it was obvious that it was a house for girls. But he didn't care, as long as the girl liked it.
There is no problem with decorating in winter, but the open-air balcony is a bit troublesome. It is not easy to dismantle it and do waterproofing. The most you can do is to arrange some outdoor decorations.
Tao Shuxin pretended to rummage through her wallet, but ultimately she was too embarrassed to take it out, so she had to let Xu Mingyuan pay a deposit and sign the decoration contract.
Holding the gift bag sent by the sales office, Tao Shuxin said casually: "I'm just giving you a reference, I won't move there..."
"Okay, I understand. We are going to register tomorrow. Do you want to go in the morning or in the afternoon?" Xu Mingyuan asked.
"Tomorrow? I have a major class and it's not good to skip it. Let's go the day after tomorrow..."
When Tao Shuxin was asked about the key points, he hesitated and was unable to answer.
"Well, okay." Xu Mingyuan smiled.
"You can take the contract?" "Just put it in the car."
"What if it's lost?" Tao Shuxin frowned.
"Then you should protect him well and remember to hold him even when he sleeps." Xu Mingyuan said.
"Oh, you always cause me trouble, so annoying..."
Tao Shuxin muttered to herself, thinking for a long time, and felt that it was safer to carry it with her. Besides, she hadn't read the contract carefully yet, so she had to read it carefully.
Tao Shuxin became a little quail on the road. She didn't even say a few words during the meal. Her heartbeat accelerated as soon as she spoke, and her head was a mess.
“I won’t live there.”
After a long silence, Tao Shuxin started muttering to himself again.
"Hahaha, you've said it more than ten times. Okay, I get it. I won't give you the key." Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.
"But you are so careless, what if you lose the key?"
Tao Shuxin glanced at Xu Mingyuan and narrowed her eyes unconsciously.
"Then I'll hire a locksmith to come and pick the lock. Can a living person be suffocated to death by urine?"
"Why do you have to pry open the door lock?"
"If it breaks, I'll replace it. I've already bought the house, and I'm still missing a door lock?"
"..."
Tao Shuxin turned her head away angrily, and after a long while she complained in a low voice: "You are just trying to make me angry on purpose..."
"Why am I mad at you again? Am I not doing what you want?"
"Humph! Pretend! Go ahead and pretend! Let's see how long you can keep pretending."
Tao Shuxin simply acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. Anyway, things had come to this point, so instead of being laughed at by Xu Mingyuan, it would be better to have a few words with him.
"Aren't we the same? Don't laugh at me when I'm only fifty steps away." Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.
"You are really good!"
Tao Shuxin didn't want to pay attention to him anymore.
Xu Mingyuan did not tease her anymore. Once this little girl became too shy, it would be hard to start with her...
For the next two days, Tao Shuxin took the contract with him to get out of class every day and had no mind to study at all. It was not until he went to register the real estate that he felt relieved.
From then on, Tao Shuxin no longer went to the music club every day. Whenever she had spare time, she would call Xu Mingyuan to go and see how the house was being decorated.
Xu Mingyuan was bombarded with her phone calls and had no choice but to take time out every day to accompany her to visit the new house seeing that she was in high spirits.
There was nothing to see in the newly renovated bare house. Several holes were punched in the non-load-bearing walls, and the ground was littered with cement, sand and solid wood boards, making it a mess.
Tao Shuxin saw it all and felt the pain in her heart.
Although she hasn't paid yet, she owns half of the house. At worst, she can just pay Xu Mingyuan monthly payments and treat it as a loan.
At the end of December, Tao Shuxin got back the big red real estate certificate.
When Tao Shuxin saw the name printed on the seal, her mood, which had just calmed down, became flustered again.
"You are not allowed to speak."
Tao Shuxin swallowed his saliva and did not sit in the passenger seat. Instead, he opened the back door.
"I didn't say anything."
Xu Mingyuan glanced at the rearview mirror inside the car and saw a pair of lively eyes swaying left and right, as if he didn't know where to look.
"Hey, does it look like a marriage certificate to you? Remember what you said?" Xu Mingyuan joked, knowing what she was thinking.
"How are they similar? What did I say? I don't understand what you are asking..."
Tao Shuxin spoke weakly, looking at the busy traffic outside the window, feeling more and more like she had been tricked by him...
(End of this chapter)